Foreman of the Alaztaşı mine

The foreman of the Alaztaşı mine is the unnamed man who ran the Alaztaşı mine outside Aquila in the campaign Yeni Dünya ("New World"). When the adventurers sent by Miro came to the gate, he had them let in, told them that the mine had been shut for a week and a half because of a darkness his workers spoke of, and admitted that he had not gone down himself. He sent one of his men with them to test their skills where the darkness began.¹²³

The beast and its pelts

Once they reported what they had found, he said he had heard of an animal that makes an unnatural darkness to hide its young in the breeding season, and that its fur was prized for things that help one see in the dark. He wanted the pelts of the adult and of its young rather than live animals, offered to share with the party what clearing them would bring in, and promised a separate payment if a ruby ring was found. Saga reported that he meant to post men with crossbows at the exits so that no animal could be smuggled out alive.⁴⁵⁶⁷⁸⁹

He made the pelts of the adult and of every cub the condition of payment. The party brought out the adult's body and a stillborn cub and told him that they had found only one cub, keeping the living darkness panther cubs hidden from him.¹⁰¹¹¹²

The lost ring

The foreman told the party that a young lord of the house that owns the mine had lost a ring bearing the family's arms while visiting, and that he did not know how. He asked that the matter be kept from the other members of the house: one child of the house had died in a rebellion, a third child was expected, and the question of the inheritance was in dispute, so he did not want the loss to become known.¹³¹⁴¹⁵

He then asked Sticks to have a copy of the ring made in secret. A price was agreed through a messenger; later Sticks engraved initials inside the copy, and a further price was settled with the foreman in which, it was stressed, silence was part of what was being bought. Whether the copy was ever finished and handed over is not known.^16171819

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Sticks had taken the ring the day before the party came to the mine, and hid it elsewhere before joining the search. Nothing shows that the foreman knew this when he asked Sticks for the copy.²⁰²¹